Article: HP Wins Oracle Lawsuit
By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), August 5, 2012 3:49 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
> > Oracle keep supporting the (far slower) M-series SPARC?
Honestly, the 'Itanium has bad performance' excuse makes no sense. It's definitely faster than Niagara and potentially the Fujitsu M-series.
> I'd expect
> fully loaded M9000 (64-socket SPARC64 VII+) to be approximately twice faster
> than fully loaded Superdome2 (32-socket Tukwila) in majority of commercial
> applications.
> Do you have a hard data that could contradict my
> expectations?
I think the relevant comparison point is Poulson, as it should be out any day now.
I'm a little surprised that they only have 32S systems, since they used to scale up to 64S...and now they have better interconnects.
But I don't perceive Itanium as being dramatically slower than Fujitsu.
DK
Honestly, the 'Itanium has bad performance' excuse makes no sense. It's definitely faster than Niagara and potentially the Fujitsu M-series.
> I'd expect
> fully loaded M9000 (64-socket SPARC64 VII+) to be approximately twice faster
> than fully loaded Superdome2 (32-socket Tukwila) in majority of commercial
> applications.
> Do you have a hard data that could contradict my
> expectations?
I think the relevant comparison point is Poulson, as it should be out any day now.
I'm a little surprised that they only have 32S systems, since they used to scale up to 64S...and now they have better interconnects.
But I don't perceive Itanium as being dramatically slower than Fujitsu.
DK
